Gene Balk

Puget Sound’s Democratic share has slipped since 2022, but Republicans haven’t gained. Instead, independents have climbed to a decade high, FYI Guy writes.

The sharp change is part of a national trend, but the city moved faster than most others.

The Seattle area’s most extreme bedroom communities

The geographic divide in WA natural gas usage

A new global index ranks Seattle fourth worldwide, powered by remarkable economic productivity, high quality of life and natural appeal, writes FYI Guy.

Seattle ranked second to last among the nation's 50 largest cities for the share of households with children in which grandparents are the primary caregivers, FYI Guy writes.

Eighty percent of young Seattle women, and nearly as many young Seattle men, have earned a bachelor's degree or higher, writes FYI Guy.

Seattle has roughly as many children as it did in 1950 — and in parts of the city's dense core, the census found none at all, writes FYI Guy.

Seattle's stock of single-family home rentals fell by 20% from 2019 to 2024, and a few city neighborhoods saw particularly steep declines, writes FYI Guy.

International immigration has long driven King County's growth, with the largest gains concentrated in tech-heavy Eastside and Seattle tracts, writes FYI Guy.